Local theatre-goers heading up to New York City and checking out the Tony Award-winning Best Play of 2015 might do a double-take after looking at the program, wondering whether or not they h…
"I just finished a week of playing Thénardier on Broadway to 1,300 people a night, and it was so beautiful. I feel like my whole persona and world has shifted. I'm in a place of re-discover…
It was sad to wake this morning to the news that the wonderful playwright Brian Friel has died. Tributes have been quick, effusive, and plentiful, and ranging from the Michael D Higgins, Pre…
"This project has changed me completely," Laura Kaminsky told me, "as an artist and as a composer. It's been an amazing experience so far. For months, I was taking Hannah's spirit everywhere…
"I still can't wear shoes," Kate Eastwood Norris said to me as she indicated her flip-flops during our elevator trip up to one of the higher floors at Studio Theatre, where she is rehearsing…
"You have to 'Coward' it," Valerie Leonard said to me, as she considered the fine art of acting in the very distinctive plays of Noël Coward. I had begun our conversation by asking Leonar…
"This is not a political play in its aim. It's an examination of a family and of a tragedy that involves hot-button political issues, but it is crafted in a way that the politics is kind of …
I walked into the tent, and Peter and Wendy were already flying. The Peter Pan in the Threesixty Theatre folks had invited some press types for a backstage tour. I'd been thinking about …
Friends and colleagues of the director Gabriele Jakobi were shocked and deeply saddened to learn that she suffered a massive stroke in June. A GoFundMe campaign has been set up with the goal…
The American Century Theater (TACT) opened its doors in 1995 with a production of Twelve Angry Men. That's the teleplay from the golden age of live TV that, like many of the best of those (M…
Une Soirée au Cabaret is a pleasant evening of dance and music. I wouldn’t have gone far out of my way to catch it, but I found it an entertaining and distracting change of pace from …
Dishwasher proudly proclaims itself as a unique Fringe experience. It is the first show in Fringe history that 1) doesn’t have a fixed venue; 2) occurs at the home of the ticket-buyer;…
War and Peas is a charming and delightful treat for young audiences, for the friends and family of young audiences, and for more general audiences who will enjoy and appreciate low-tech, yet…
Stuff is a play about objects and their accumulation, but it is not about hoarding, strictly speaking. It's about why we keep things and what the things we keep can inform us about oursel…
You only have one more chance to experience one of the best things you will see this year at Fringe: Tammy Faye’s Final Audition. It’s difficult for me to imagine that you could …
If you are at all like me, as you are watching the new play (a love story) at this year's Source Festival, memories of the most intense of feelings will mingle with thoughts of small moments…
At this year's Helen Hayes Awards, Flying V Theatre was awarded the John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company. Beginning on June 11th, the troupe will unveil its first prod…
The Call by Tanya Barfield is one of those rare plays that puts the most intimate of situations into a compelling global context. It's the story of a white couple in the U.S. who decide to a…
"People are going to see a full drag transformation on stage. No smoke and mirrors." Alex Mills considered this for a second, and then qualified: "Well, there will be mirrors." He was speaki…
After a performance of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that my family attended, my daughter walked into the lobby where the actors were waiting to greet the audience. She walked up to one of them…
It was an unusual invitation that I received from a colleague and friend about the final four chances to see her current performance: "Please read the description and warnings about the show…
"You couldn't write that," said the guy in the seat next to me at Tuesday night's opening of Dame Edna's Glorious Goodbye: The Farewell Tour, in town for a week (closing April 26th) at the N…
"There's no justification, none of that, but it's an incredibly interesting story. I don't know that it's ever been told before, and certainly not in this fashion," Matty Griffiths said to m…
War stories and insights from Hemmingsen, Ingvarsson, and McNamara " doing it together for decades Robert McNamara is Artistic Director of SCENA Theatre and Director of The Norwegians, the p…
"We were trying to figure it out the other day," Nanna Ingvarsson said after I asked her how many times she and her husband Brian Hemmingsen have worked together. I was talking to them in th…